Bulldog Track

After penetrating dense equatorial rain forests it winds up around jungle clad ridges for some sixty kilometres to over 9,800 feet (3,000 metres) on the Central Ranges before dropping down to the township of Wau in the Bulolo Valley.

In order to reach the Bulldog Track it is a short drive south east from Wau to the village of Winima.

The Chief Engineer, W. J. Reinhold, was later to write "Every foot of progress made on this road exacted the ultimate in courage, endurance, skill and toil.

Since blacksmiths tools were slow in arriving and forges awkward to transport, it was often necessary to use badly blunted tools.The purpose of the road was to provide a supply line for future military operations in the Markham Valley and on the northern coasts of Papua New Guinea.

On the late afternoon of August 22, 1943, the road was finally completed and two jeeps crossed from Edie Creek to Bulldog.

Thus the road, acclaimed as the greatest military engineering feat ever,[1] was completed and for the only time in history motor vehicles crossed the high rugged mountains of Papua New Guinea.